Bats

Brazilian Free-tail Migration

Also known as Mexican Free-tail Bats, some 250,000 roost in the historic Orient Mine every summer. This mostly male migration starts as far south as South America, gathering numbers as it flies north with small wings, no more than __ inchs long.

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